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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best. A cleverly constructed play, it sticks close to the ground, to subjects that all the members of a reasonably enlightened audience can agree on. The argument of playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee is simple: freedom of thought is better than bigotry. Although this point may not appear overly original, the two writers give it considerable dramatic intensity by recreating the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial," where a small town school teacher was brought into court for teaching the "subversive" doctrine of evolution...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Inherit the Wind | 12/6/1956 | See Source »

...said that he would appear before the study committee instead. Vellucci reported that he would decide today when this group would hold its first meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Defeats Proposal For Alternate-Side Parking | 12/4/1956 | See Source »

Tito, in his efforts to appear before the world as a liberal Communist, has allowed several of his more conspicuous critics to remain at large. But one day during the Hungarian revolt, he said: "We must not allow any obscure people, any elements, to spread all sorts of rumors . . . The people must prevent them from sowing dissension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Is a Dangerous Word | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...tycoon. What fiction now needs, suggests Chase Manhattan Bank Economist Robert A. Kavesh in a survey of current business fiction, is a "greater focus on the corporation itself and more particularly on the executives who govern collectively. No longer the villain of the piece, the businessman may appear in a variety of roles more adequately reflecting the range and variety of personalities that exist in the business world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: -BUSINESSMEN IN FICTION--: New Novels Reflect New Understanding | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...Stevenson it also represents an important step in determining his future political role. If he accepts, he may appear to be aligning himself with the dissatisfied Northern liberal faction, while in the past he has been primarily a moderate figure in the party...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Stevenson Invited to Join Party Strategy Committee | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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